Succeed Quotes - Page 40

• To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Men, Choices

  Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

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• There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

  James Joyce

  Doubt, Going Away, Dublin

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Intelligent, Healthy

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Failing

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Failing

  "Happiness: Should You Have Goals Or Resolutions?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2008.

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• The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Want, Failing

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• Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

  Noam Chomsky

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  "Students Should Become Anarchists". ZEIT Campus Interview, www.indybay.org. June 27, 2011.

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• No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

  Diana Palmer

  Sacrifice, Revolution, Without Sacrifice

  Diana Palmer (2014). “September Morning”, p.20, Harlequin

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• People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Views, Sky

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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• When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

  Charles Baxter

  Broken Heart, Jobs, Lying

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  MacDonald Harris

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  Nick Cave

  Artist, Thinking, Essentials

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• These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Light, Shining, Desire

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

  Kim Harrison

  Father, Odds, Feelings

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• First, this is a great job, and i'm excited about it." "Second, i'm ambitious, but i can succeed almost everywhere." "What I can't do anywhere is be with you." "Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline. It's easy. Incredibly easy.

  Tammara Webber

  Jobs, Decision, Ambitious

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• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Ocean, Writing

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• God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Giving, Catholic

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• I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

  Bob Goff

  Matter, Failing, Used

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Age, Pace

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.136, Penguin

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• Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

  John Bunyan

  Father, Skills, Giving

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 (Mr Valiant-for-Truth)

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• You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rose, Monsters, Swallowing

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• You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Winning, Self, Losing

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